years of self-sacrifice comparison with those who understand fully that you have to live a. real life stories from world war two. nineteen forty five don't r.t. top come. on out see france becomes the first state to recognize libya's rebels as the country's government and we take a closer look at who they are and whether they have them legal rights of power. the movies fueling beliefs that the country's close to foreign military intervention for the details coming up in just a few moments this is international pressure grows on libya to resolve the ongoing crisis. push into fiction for your view of the situation which is good news and six good and fresh pictures because it just feeds in with the thief is doing the feel good feeling the feeling. that libya is high on the agenda to america's vice

president meets the russian leadership and opposition in moscow emphasis is also want to stink trade as we report. to national news channel thanks for being with us it's eleven pm now here in moscow my name is kevin zero in on our top story france saying it is recognizing libya's opposition as the quote legitimate representatives of the people and it plans to exchange ambassadors for that move is fueling fears that the country may soon see foreign military intervention at a meeting of nato defense ministers the alliance is chief earlier says that member countries are united in their stance bushell is the latest from brussels. this fog resinous and says that nato is ready to act finally is the most explicit comments so far from nato that it is waiting to send troops into libya but the fact is it's

backed into a corner because of course he keeps making more explicit as i say a commitment to send troops into libya at the same time there's a growing international backlash which the head of nato has been forced to recognize the secretary general says that he understands the concerns here did that there must be proof and demonstrably a commitment from the rebels that they want to see. nato troops backing them because of course the fear of the rebels is that once nato comes in the libyan population will turn against them let's listen to what reza aslan had to say exactly he has been patient id to increase their presence of. nato maritime assets in the central michu rain in these ships it will improve nato she to ation or awareness our message today is.

nato is united nato is vigilant nature is ready to act well there was a meeting between president sarkozy's office of france and the libyan rebel national council after wish it was decided to announce that france rick ignores is the rebels as the legitimate power in that country they will exchange ambassadors france will send an ambassador to be in causey and vice versa there will be diplomats in france as the official representative of their country french foreign minister ellen should pay poached european partners to follow suit and gauge with the new libyan leaders the trouble is this opposition doesn't have much control it says there's certain pockets of the country in the east there's also devious question marks over its formation mirah former ministers of justice the minister of the interior from the get their feet regime in this party along with several rebels

rebels who are dissidents also who spent years in prison it's not sure why france has done this france this is not traditionally the closest ally of libya because libya was a former holy of italy and there are question marks now being raised by the international community what's are france's motives of course one of them is the fear that military intervention intervention has been planned and will follow suit russia's envoy to nato told me that he now feels the worst. right now there's a real danger mistrials can be used against libyan air bases to try gadhafi his advantage is the legal head of state also there are attempts to generalize the rebels to make it seem to the outside power has passed from gadhafi to the rebels who have been repeated calls from the international community to leave libya alone and let the two sides sort out it is between themselves those fears that this will disturb a hornet's nest by foreign military intervention even the rebels themselves say

they will. for the. sections not to get involved as we heard from russia's representative today it's a there are increasing fears that the western powers of gearing up for military intervention in the country tell you bush will our europe correspondent jim lobe who's washington bureau chief for in suppressed service told me earlier that french support for the libyan rebels might lead to the establishment of two regimes have become. the french move would appear to suggest that the french an inning and possibly encouraged by the british and the americans one to safeguard benghazi. i think it's very possible that you may see the establishment essentially of two regimes in libya and military steps to ensure the security in. benghazi i don't think invasion is anything anyone certainly in the united states wants to see. i think there are a range of ups and options which have been. both in the congress and certainly

within the administration among them are a no fly zone in large shipments and protected shipments of humanitarian and other aid possibly even some military support i would assume that would be of a non-lethal nature. least initially and perhaps a defensive nature. but we've got much more on the situation in libya in just a few moments on r.t. and also the stories of two. people really angry anxious just because the burden falls and i'm sure this. american congressman who once called the muslim vote through an office is now accused of organizing a witch hunt we got that one plus. moscow is the world's wealthiest count at all seventy nine of russia's one hundred one billionaires living here the details of the she is forbes richest list in our business policy to the purport of an.

so international pressure against libya's growing following a controversial decision by france to recognize the rebels claim to power alongside which russia is imposing sanctions banning the export of any of its weapons or military equipment to colonel gadhafi regime and his policy is in the capital tripoli to find out what people there think. the reaction of people here in europe is this it should keep it now officially recognized the opposition as. it is of libya is one of shock and anger people. that this. nation find it because they see that it is now with the self. and we take. the official reaction from the libyan government is one of the should pay for it which is that this is dangerous interfere with it in libya and this is basically to push on the libyan medium women could defeat propagate take his naval forces.

of the oil rich city of russia that we are hearing reports that he. has been said and that this has been funding. and can crown it into a parking lot and a mosque. the russian president to final on. which can sail from russia to libya to initially getting the military equipment as well as. the russian government is that they say that even though it is standing still if we can get this in any way so that they can go find. that this will be easy to keep coming in. which the u.k. says something that the duffy vision is going to be able to go against gadhafi has again that interfere with fine foreign is launched the focus on the children.

will feel that he says that the incoming incrementation of. backfire my colleague an unemployed could take from the grave insult on a donkey nation take a look at these if we can we just become very much comes out of these clashes. after the liberation chance the rattle of kalashnikovs is the most common sound in the kazi ever since ravel seized weapons depots in eastern libya rifles became the ultimate symbol of masculinity that every young man in the city once one thing in common between more market are free and it forced a struggling chancy team is a fascination with the arms believe in leader he developed a liking for kalashnikov rifle so much so that he even had an eight k. forty seven munition plant built here in libya that rounds at least one produced an hour hailing all across eastern libya on the frontlines and beyond young man with

rifles have become a fixture on the streets of benghazi they're eager to show them off and often slap happy in their handling of the arms can a soldier from the been the as a garrison who joined their freising says many of the stella rebels don't have any experience with arms which he says is made out by their passionate determination of the will fight until the last bullet to the last drop of blood god is on. the street you've been ghazi is still living off of the revolutionary fever from dusk till dawn people congregate on the city's main square calling for gadhafi to go most of the factories are closed the only people still working a shop owners there is good no good no good. many people no people and complex servants like these traffic police officer despite the loss of control

over is to leave here because the government continues to pay salaries to those employed by the state of the view that's been one of years i received my last paycheck of attendees ago but there is nothing to thank you duffy for my salary is just two hundred fifty dinars with a can barely support my family agitation and uncertainty of the last few weeks are already exerting. toll on public health big as the psychiatric hospital is now flooded with patients whose preexisting conditions were exacerbated by the unrest nowadays because of the people uprising lots of people day care is suffering from the so-called bending the shoulders. some of our patient old surviving relapses from their previous mental problems now because of the. uprising because of the shooting the hated and ridiculed doubtingly being the

most valuable asset for the opposition movement as that hatred pulls people together for the time being if united's those who spent years serving in his government and the victims of his persecution yet their chance for free libra i've yet to be augmented by a clear vision of how to achieve it people in bin gazi are now leaving all their savings sharing whatever little they have most of them are confident that one good effort leaves the bright future will dawn on them that is past revolutions are anything to go by the abundance of arms and hordes of idly roaming man could mean exactly the opposite. of what the art scene in gazi libya. with talk of international involvement in libya is being tough to avoid for the u.s. vice president has been meeting with the russian leadership joe biden is on day two of his visit to moscow but he's katrina czar of the report. there's been speculation of course the engineer has been rife with sources claiming that joe

biden has indeed tried to guarantee russia's support should the u.s. decide to go ahead with its military intervention in libya we do know that several foreign nations of course including the united states have not ruled out the possibility of bringing their troops to libya in order to resolve the conflict while others including russia have so far chosen to stand back and settle the matter for themselves well this of course is the second day of joe biden's visit to moscow and the jury in those two days he had a quite a busy agenda of course meeting with the russian leaders both the russian president meeting with native and with the prime minister. of this progress was mostly on trade talks joe biden who of course heralded at the current reset in ties between moscow and washington underlined the necessity of that reset continuing in his meeting with woods and saying that the previous administration did not choose to

maximize on the strategic potential that exists in the relationship between moscow and washington d.c. and the current administration is of course very much interested in that joe biden also took the time to meet not only with the russian leaders but also with non-governmental parties and members of the opposition and human rights groups all of that was on his agenda as well as a trip to the russian analog of silicon valley skolkovo where joe biden spent a lot of time being shown around and told about the potential prospects and of course the various american businesses willing to participate in this new venture. from foreign relations joining us from washington d.c. the. current troubles in north africa are always going to be high on the table for discussion just cocaine is the u.s.

do you think to get russia's support for military intervention. i think at this point the united states hasn't made up its mind about military intervention including the no fly zone and certainly anything beyond that at this point you're still talking about sanctions about delivery of humanitarian aid so i think what the president was saying to the russian leadership is let's stay on the same page let's stay together that i think is the most important outcome at this point because nobody really knows within either russia or europe or the united states exactly how to respond to developments in libya because there's a lot more on the agenda as well the talk about today joe biden was speaking to students at moscow state university wasn't he told that he remembered his first visit to the soviet union back in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine and address then solve the premier let's take a listen. and see before we begin a discussion. let's agree that we do not trust you

and you do not trust us and we both have good reason and in the second decade of this new century the united states and russia no longer have good reason. not to trust. so charles do you agree with the vice president sentiment is there the relations between the two i know better than ever. i do believe that and i think in many respects what we're seeing here is the closing of phase one and the opening of phase two of this so-called reset phase one was all about security and high politics it was about the new start treaty missile defense iran afghanistan and that really came to a close when the russian parliament and the u.s. senate ratified start now i think what we're looking at is more societal contact cross investment that crosses the borders people traveling more between the two

countries trying to build the confidence that the vice president just talked to security is obviously going to be there both in north africa and trying to get us russian cooperation on missile defense but i think we're now seeing the relationship broaden out in deeper and its social route also the. thought of the issue of russia's accession to the world trade organization joe biden pledged his personal support for the eliminating the jaxon van and the end is russia's accession to the group washington bridge parts already said as well it's a matter of the purse so why is it taking so long for this to go. well i think there are a couple different issues one is the w t o and there there has been a lot of political interference at one point russia itself backed away georgia has not been playing a particularly helpful role they have a veto to some extent on russian accession but at this point it looks like things

are moving in the right direction jaxon van dyk is a legacy of a different era it should have really been scrapped much earlier the u.s. congress isn't very good about getting rid of sanctions and so i think it's the vice president is really going to have to push this through congress but at this point given the improvement in relations that seems to be taking place i do think we're headed both toward russia getting into the w.c. and to the repeal of jack's and then sometime soon time's little bit against charles applied also stressed u.s. readiness to build a unified europe anti missile defense system this project though of course remains of contention between moscow and washington and it's not going to say of the project is that going to be overcome. i think the key is to start the discussion now it would be a mistake for the united states to go ahead with the planning for missile defense and then two three four years down the road say hey moscow we want you to play the

key start the dialogue now get russia in on the ground floor and i'm pretty confident that both technologically and politically there's a way that people who sides can make this a win win situation with both parties cooperating as well as the europeans just of should political expert as you are from the u.s. council on foreign relations good of you and i thank you my pleasure now all the stories we're talking about of course also on our home page r t v dot com and a lot more precise including the u.s. city of san francisco is a law right now in a battle over male circumcision of all things because jewish groups have been rallying against a proposal which could see the practice criminal is going to find out more about that story generating a lot of debate starts eagle also getting a lot of clicks billionaire's row when the center of moscow get yourselves an excellent property just five meters from the kremlin but boy it costs if you're ready to pay thirty thousand euros per square meter you can find it all about ten

for most expensive residential streets in the world that are. the first in a series of u.s. government hearings into the radicalization of american muslims has been held in washington being led by homeland security chairman peter king who says the issue threatens the country but his art is more important than finding king's been accused of turning on a community which had embraced him. on friday. a familiar sound of worship that goes from the islamic center of long island. oh no it's a place of prayer education and community service for many of long island's seventy thousand muslims it's also a place where u.s. congressman peter king spent years building bridges with american voters. supporters who today remain shocked that king labeled their mosque a hotbed for extremism that should be put under surveillance. readings also

and we have been to his office many times what about to be needed out of it would be palm it is chairman of the long island center that sits just outside the boundaries of king's third congressional district. amid fears the man he once fundraise for a currently be the strongest force fueling the flames of islamophobia in america to . my community is my biggest concern and trying to create trouble. by doing these things during his early days as congressman king was often seen at the islamic center on long island giving lectures holding book signings even serving as the main guest of honor when the prayer officially opened officials say since september eleventh two thousand and one the u.s. representative has not stepped one foot inside this building the islamic center unanimously condemned the event but king cut ties with the institution after two

officials were quoted in nine muslim involvement and linking israel to nine eleven to. instead peter king recently appointed chairman of the powerful house homeland security committee has announced congressional hearings on a legit hit in radicalism among american muslims and mosques a drastic turn that has brought fear to king's constituents these are allies. and their lives in a very bad way and you know we're. not sure. we even outside of from the states it has been very disturbing to us especially when the coalition of muslim population in the long island community is growing substantially looking for support. congressman king has said that most muslim

leaders in this country aren't cooperating with authorities yet no member of this long island islamic center has ever been accused of terrorism. and muslim americans in this community are appalled that their very own u.s. representative is targeting them based on their religious beliefs there are extremists in every every community every religion i mean you know why just islam what it's a happy pain from it either a personal vendetta or maybe something to gain in the comic it's there's a lot of fear people are really angry. because to because they. really experience experience for free in a country of tolerance a new york community left feeling isolated and marginalized by the man they once rallied behind. r.t. new york. just let you know in about ten minutes time tonight because the report

heads off to egypt to search the week's big finance stories they're back to the present look at today's business these are must go tonight's no demon series big so you're a real sharp drop in the oil prices today been a really unsettling time as it steadied out all of the other was a drop of some like three percent during the session but now it's pared some of the losses because of new reports of violence from saudi arabia and i'll have more on that in a minute but first of all let's look at the russian ruble it suffers its sharpest today drop against the dollar this year trimming its tremendous rally against the greenback now declining oil prices and spain's credit downgrade caused the ruble to depreciate to twenty eight rubles forty six copecks per dollar that's around the one percent drop russian currencies still seven percent stronger versus the dollar this year showing the biggest gain among one hundred seventy we were down three now it's a good well as promised it is down the investors still remain cautious over libya.

and concerned about reports of saudi arabia to meet opening fire on protesters and also the sharp fall came on the back of worries about the global energy demand this is as the u.s. trade deficit expanded around fifteen percent in january to forty six billion dollars an all time high as the price of the political will skyrocketing and u.s. jobless claims added twenty six thousand last week this is the capturing hopes of a steady recovery u.s. economy therefore this sharp drop in the dow and nasdaq with these stats and worries russian stocks saw one of the biggest one day falls this year with party as myself declining around three percent each take a look at some of the shares energy and banking stocks were the biggest losers gazprom down three percent down three percent to lukewarm down two point nine percent at the close reclining crude coupled with its u.s. net profits falling short of expectations. this perception is turning more more

more more negative and is hurting emerging markets so this is a shift from emerging markets to developed markets and also hurting russia basically the high oil price will be very positive for russia and that's why russia has been the best performing emerging markets this year and i do not think that what we are seeing today is the beginning of a new trend where russia and underperform profound things i think of actually. hearing american businessmen gather in moscow to discuss u.s. russian business relations and one key topic on the agenda is localization in the car industry and that's a promise from investors that sixty percent of each car assembled in russia will be built with locally manufactured parts now andrew sobel is chairman of the u.s. chamber of commerce here in russia says that goal is to hire the balance is still a lack of quality services are a number of sectors here so that companies are afraid when they get to the fifty

year they only have forty percent local components instead of sixty percent and then you'll lose some of the benefits that they had gained. a record number of billionaires have joined the list of the world's richest this year out of over one hundred russian tycoons on the forbes list but as of living leeson holds fourteen place russian forbes deputy editor the secret of his success. unlike other major piece and listen is concentrating on his key business that is not a leap it's still one of the world's largest steel produces this and puts all his efforts into his company's development and it's turned it into the most profitable and the most effective steel producer in the country that's against the backdrop of growing demand from china and india which is boosting the steel price so high a price is going to rise in the capitalization listen to move to the top of the list are. from the business team for today we're back friday corrina

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